The truth is that the government has been playing catchup with the open source community and never once won without help (like the Mitnick case). There are plenty of free security utilities that will plug you system good, but if You really want a spy free system, get linux. Whenever they have to hack a UNIX-like system they always scratch their heads for a few hours.

Have you read the Wikileaks Vault 7 release?
The CIA/NSA have at this point planted people(coders) into practically ever big tech company to code in backdoors for them.
Yes you can check the code for open source stuff but who really does and has the time to go over every line of code checking for buffer overflows and 0days? Especially when the double agent who wrote it says it is OK?

Also like Snowden said the NSA is monitoring all of our data anyway. And not just collecting the data (which isn't that big of a problem) but they actually have ways of meaningfully analyzing it. They can single people out by their passwords that they use on multiple sites. They also have the computing power to crack passwords in reasonable amounts of time.

They have enough ways of collecting data that even the quantity of meta data that they can collect on you is essentially no longer meta but becomes actual complete data.

It is practically impossible to stay ahead of the government now. The internet is nothing like is used to be.

0 post (or few posts) user or guest. Posting something with links to some company with commercial (?) products, or some downloadable software (which might be infected with viruses or troyans btw, forum posts is one of the ways they lure people to get infected). Sometimes the link may be "disguised" as . (<-small dot here). That's how forum spamming looks like. Remember it and report () such posts.

I'll remove the links and close the thread.

BTW, please do not resurrect threads from 2002 to post something completely unrelated. Actually, it's a bad idea to post something completely unrelated even to recent threads. In every forum section there is this button near the top of it